hierarchy Meaning and Definition
1. n. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
2. n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
A hierarchy (from the Greek hierarchia, "rule of a high priest", from hierarkhes, "leader of sacred rites") is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another.
Sponored Video